Travelog (the short one)

Yesterday we went to Naga C|ity or, what I prefer to call it, Nueva Caceres. The purpose of the tour was to be amazed of everything we saw and write in a sheet of papere what made us so amazed.

I was really amazed so Mission Accomplished ma'am!

I really wanted to just post the travelog on my account for several reasons:

a.) more people can read it and the word will spread better
b.)it doesn't cost anything to upload photos
c.)you can personalize your wall these days

Back to my story. So anyways, the best thing I did was riding the 4D Max Rider. I had fun screaming my head off  every time some hideous beast would come chasing me.

When we came out we sore throats, I saw the Grade 7 boys...........
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playing with computers.

I was like, Ugh. There are a lot of things to do there and they decide to play computer games. Like they don't do it every other day. Like they don't have it at home....

Write a travelog about a computer screen.. Gee, that's fun.

Okay I sound bitter.

My Books; The Most Important Documents

I am totally hooked on books. I’m always skipping from one series to another. Although, I have never ever collected one complete series. Diary of Wimpy Kid? Nah, found myself too old for the cartoon novel. Dork Diaries? Too expensive for such a small book. Harry Potter? The inconsistent and expensive prices made my wallet feeling so light.

But that all changed when I discovered Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

I just recently bought the last book, The Last Olympian, thus completing my set.

As I flipped through the book’s pages, I wondered how long for the publishing people had to type everything down: the Table of contents, the body, the chapter pages, the advertising pages.

Our most recent lesson in Computer Science I was about making documents. And, in my book the pages of a novel count as a document.

I know how they made the Table of contents and the other pages. As I looked at the Chapter title, I couldn’t help but I wonder on what type of book the footnotes where most found because I haven’t seen any novel with footnotes before.

I scanned through a bunch of books, in my house and the ‘recorded’ books in my head. Then, I remembered that the bible has a bunch of footnotes per page. And some manuals had footnotes, too, if dummies couldn’t get them. And in Reader’s Digest! Yeah! How could I forget?

I groaned last Friday because we had a practical exam about these stuff, and I should probably admit I found it hard because I didn’t really take in what Sir Tom was yammering on and on about because I thought that the only purpose for these were term papers, which I had to pass only after, like, 2 years. 

And a bunch of factors gave me a better feel when I read the books. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series had a Greek-y font that made me feel I was reading an actual writing from a Camp Half-Blood Scribe.

Now I know that it’s important and has other uses than for term papers. How could the publishing people type my favorite stories if they didn’t know?

Candy Colored

Hi there! I'm currently in the Computer Lab and I just want to add a few more posts.

See, our current activities always need colors. The graphs need color, the text need color, the space inside the cells need color and even the lines need color!

I always have fun looking at the type of colors my classmates use since the colors they use can reflect their personalities. One of them used colors like dark red and grey and black and  midnight view. I had a feeling that he/she was going through something really really really bad. I decided not to ask.

One used bubblegum pink, sunshine yellow and sky blue. I was like, "Candy lang, teh?". Really girls. So girly I wanted to puke rainbows....

So you may ask, What colors did you use Pia Pie?

Well, I used the colors that our teacher had used. I didn't really want to waste time personalizing everything.

Just goes to show how boring I am..... ;)

The Slowest Thing I've Ever Known

Merry Christmas, dearest readers! :) 

 

I was looking forward to my Christmas vacation, since the last week of school in 2012  had a few bad. . . times for me.

But the universe(thanks, universe)got out of its way to give me every students bane: assignments.

Ugh. Just hearing the word makes me shudder.

Anyways, right now I’m searching pics for my groups project for Integrated Science. AND I’m also searching for the script of Alberto Florentino’s The World is An Apple. AND I’m also supposed to search some words for Values Education. AND I also need to update my blog for Computer Science.

Work overload? Maybe. Easy? I thought so.

See, this would’ve been quite EASY for moi, but the internet connection runs so slow I had the time to run from here to China. 

Kidding! But it’s just ssssoooo slow, I wondered if there was such a thing as Snail E-mail.

Well, I have to get back to my assignments now. Sayonara!

Joke for the week:

Q: Who is the fastest singer?

A: Taylor SWIFT!

Am I Famous or Something?

A few moments ago, I’ve been looking for pictures for my English project; “The World Is An Apple”.

It was about a couple who lived in a squatters area near Intramuros. Then the guy got fired for stealing an apple for his kid. Then he tells his wife that he already has a job. The wife was happy because the guy had “changed”. Then Pablo appears. As far as I knew Pablo was a mastermind for robberies and stuff like that. And Mario, the guy, came to him for a job. Then Pablo said a bunch of stuff that said that there is nothing bad with dishonest money. Then the two of them leave the house with the woman, Gloria, screaming “MARIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Our project asked us for a photo of their house. As I typed in ‘squatters area in the Philippines’, I thought nothing was gonna pop up. 

I was surprised when pictures of squatters appeared in less than, I dunno, maybe 5 seconds, And there were like 8 pages left, no less.

Blinking, I wondered how these pictures ended up here. I mean, no by stander would take a picture of their beat-up house right? And I don’t think tourists or escurtionists would take a pic of their visit in the “other” side of town.

So, I decided to type in another thing for my project that I was partly sure would end up with no results: the world is an apple.

The Internet must have liked to correct me because right on top was a picture of an actual apple that had been bitten into, so what was left looked like the continents and landmasses of the earth.

Go figure.

I wondered who these people were, because they seemed like they had an awful lot of free time just to bite into an apple to make it look like the earth. 

Another thing I searched; my name. I was sure that this surely would not come up, since there must be like a billion people with the same name as I.

Then, when the search ended, my eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Why? 

Guess. Go on!

If you answered that my face, MY face, showed as the top result on the first page(two of them, actually, since I have two inaccessible Facebook accounts), well, you got a correct answer! And what does that get you? NOTHING! Woohoo!

Shortcutting in Excel

Our recent lesson in Computer Science involved a lot of shortcuts in Excel.

For example. .  . when you want to make a huge mesh of numbers in a specific order, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 or 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, or 3, 6, 9, 12 or etc., and your too lazy to click and type and move the cursor and click and type and repeat it over and over and over again, there’s a simple way to do that! 

You can do it on other things too, like days of the week or months of the year. 

Before Sir Tom told us how, I thought making a multiplication table was a humongous hassle.

But, once again, he proved me WRONG. You just type a specific formula in the cell, move the cursor to cover the cells you want to multiply and SHABAAM! You have your own multiplication table! You can now print it out and sell it to unknowing  grade school kids. And then, they’ll come up to you and say,”Golly, miss! You must’ve spent a lot of time doing this!”

And then you’ll eat up all their praise and pretend to be modest and say,”Nah,kid. I ain’t that great. But you can have my autograph for fifty pesos.”

And do you know how our teachers get our average and stuff? And they’ll say that it will take them a long time to compute it all? Well, that means your teacher is either a liar, really NOT up-to-date to modern tech, or simply too stubborn to believe that a computer can grade her students correctly because Excel  can find you equivalent and average of all your tests and activities in less than a second! 

Hard to believe, I know. Impossible! I thought. Excel as a calculator? HAH! Takes a lot more than that to fool Ms. PiaPie! 

Suprisingly, I was wrong. Sigh, oh well. Can’t get everything right, now can I? 

Although for you to do all of this right, you need the proper formula. If not, well, you’d be surprised how big numbers get when you start from 0.

Don’t get what I mean? Don’t worry. Those of you out there who haven’t tried out Excel will be O.P. and as long as you don’t, I have a little inside joke.

BONUS: I recently have a knack for making waley jokes, thanks to influence from a magazine and a cat. Here comes my joke of the week

Question: What type of nut is good at Math?

Answer: a CASIO nut! (Cashew, to those who don’t get it.)

Multi-tasking

So, the last post I wrote was my life as a secretary. This post is not very different from the other one.

This weekend, I have a lot of things to do. Considering the fact that the 7 Sapphire class will spend the next weekend at campus, I want to make the most out of this weekend.

Since some stupid punk of a hacker found it funny to change my password, I have to text my other classmates to e-mail me the Parents' Consent, which, BTW, is posted on our FACEBOOK grroup. So, you can see how annoyed I am.

Then, I have to search for the history of Gymnastics and etc. about Gymnastics. I can't just borrow Lourdes' or Steph's copy or Marcia's because Sir Reginales only put the whole "May Recitation kayo!" thing for us. Don't ask me why.

We also have a presentation for Values Education class about people from around the world. That's fine by me. We even got extra time. I got the letter 'P', since we went by alphabetically.

You may ask, "Why not the Philippines? You're from there!"

You see, if I don't stray from my comfort zone, I'm gonna stay there. And, I'm also gonna find it hard when I'm forced to get out of it.

And also because my other classmate got Philippines first.

 To add to the pile, I have to print out the evolution of the Kataasang Kagalang-galangang Mga Anak ng Bayan flag for our Social Science homework, with the interpretation and also who thought about it.

I' waiting for the google results to find my a good one, so I'm typing as fast as I can since I won't be able to sign a post next week. 

It's agood thing I can't open my Facebook account, though. If I could, I'd be checking out the posts of my friends and chatting away with my classmates and friends and adding a post on muzy on how stupid and insensitive and blind boys are and I'd be sharing on my wall how hard homework is and I'd be stalking Scarlette Johansson and Jeremy Renner and Taylor Swift and . . . .

Whoah, there girl. I think I'm getting distracted. Well, as the Portugese say,adeus!